Bought some expensive tickets to the England – France game in paris. Paid for transport to paris and hotel. Just needed to beat Ireland and the match against France would be the battle for the 6 nations.
Well shit.
At least we can stop the french getting the grand slam i suppose.
Yes, it’s that time of year again.
Where every Star Wars fanboy falls over themselves to hit you with the line “May The 4th be With You!“.
Well here you go 
Well, I had hoped to be at the Hong Kong Sevens, but unfortunately it looked like it would cost about a month of my teacher’s salary just to get there and into the stadium. Accommodation, food, and drink would have been a load extra on top.
Instead we settled for going to Beijing each day of the competition (Last Friday, Saturday, and Sunday) to sit in The Den pub and watch it on their big screens. From 4pm on Friday to 7pm Sunday we spent 24 hours in the The Den and watched 55 of the 57 games (had to leave early on Friday to catch last bus).
Overall it was a pretty good weekend and a lot less alcohol was consumed than we originally expected. Most of the games went as expected until we got to the Quater Finals and there were a few upsets. First was Kenya beating New Zealand, the next came when Fiji beat England. I had expected a NZ – England Semi but it was not to be. After I got over my disappointment at England being out of the Cup, I put my support behind Fiji.
The Plate and Cup finals were by far the closest and best games of the whole weekend. In the Plate final an outstanding final play from Tonga won the their match against Canada by 2 points. This was only topped by Fiji scoring first against South Africa in the Cup final and managing keep hold of the lead right to the end. The pub, which was quite full of Fiji supporters by then, went wild.
All in all a great weekend. The Australian leg of the Sevens World Series is this weekend, but I think I’ll just try and catch it online.
Thought it was about time I had an about page, so I have added one.
Doesn’t really add much more info that anyone following the site for a while doesn’t already know. That’s if anyone actually follows this site 
Will probably add a little more at a later stage.
We got back from holiday last night. It’s been a pretty good 5 weeks. Will now have the time to post the photos and blog entries. Back to work on Monday.
Just a quick post to say Gong Xi Fa Cai, Gung Hay Fat Choy if you’re Cantonese , or just Happy Chinese New Year .
Why “Niu” Year? Because that’s the chinese pingyin for Ox (牛), which also happens to be the Zodiac sign for this new year.
Best wishes and fortune to you all for the coming year.
That’s right, tonight the last minute of the day (and of 2008) will be 61 seconds long.
Apparently a “leap second” will be added to clocks around the world tonight in order to keep atomic time in sync with astronomical time.
The move out of sync is caused variances in the Earth’s rotation due to factors such as changes in the atmosphere and the molten core.
So remember everyone, when you’re about to count down from 10 to welcome in the New Year, start at 11 instead.
Have a Happy New Year everyone!
Kinda broke the site for a few days. Was testing out my hosting provider’s http auth setup interface and stuck a password on my unused gallery subdomain. I forgot however that I had the wordpress gallery plugin active. This meant access to this site asked for a password, thought if you clicked cancel it let you through anyway. Have sorted that now
